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ATTORNEY: I worked offshore for several years prior to going into law school. I know the risk and the dangers involved in that work activity.

CLIENT: Being a captain, I ran like I always did. But I told them my blood pressure was high, they didn’t care, and told me to go back out there. And I did. And I got seriously injured. My employer blamed me for everything. I was scared to death. I was worried about family, my future, and I couldn’t go back to work. Jay took care of my case. I didn’t have to worry about anything anymore.

ATTORNEY: If you do not pursue the correct cause of action, you could potentially lose rights. So it’s very important that you retain a lawyer who is not only familiar with all the risk and hazards associated with offshore maritime work, it’s also very important that he be very knowledgeable in the laws that apply to your injury.

ATTORNEY: When we represent a landowner in a case involving contamination, our first and foremost objective is to recover the maximum amount that will enable the landowner to clean up his property. To clean up the mess that the oil company left behind.

When we represent a landowner in a case involving damage to the underground oil and gas beneath his property, then our objective is to obtain the maximum amount that will give him what he lost because of the oil company’s imprudent operations.

Those things govern everything we do and decide in every case we handle on behalf of landowners.

ATTORNEY: At Veron, Bice, Palermo and Wilson, we specialize in protecting and asserting landowner rights and environmental law issues. Particularly, issues arising from oil and gas activities on our client’s property. Fracking is a term that’s short for fracturing. It’s a euphemism. Fracking means setting off explosives underground that fracture formations. The idea is to release the oil and gas in those formations. But, there can be a lot of collateral damage that occurs when fracking is conducted. It’s a very controversial process, and the jury is literally and figuratively is still out on whether it’s a good thing. And fracking can cause extensive underground damage if not done correctly.

And that’s something every landowner who has oil and gas operations on his property needs to know and understand.

ATTORNEY: We’ve learned over the years that expecting oil companies to police themselves is like expecting people to follow the speed limit when you don’t have any police on the interstate. The most important thing we do is hold the individual company accountable for whatever damage they’ve caused. That can either be from not paying their fair share of royalties, or that may be for holding them accountable for the contamination they’ve caused.

We send an environmental consultant on the property to identify, document, record, and measure the amount of contamination. We look at the public records to see what operations have taken place. That’s all done before we file suit. And after we file suit, we can subpoena the company’s records that provide further details about what took place. Then we take it to trial or settlement where we hold them accountable for the damage they’ve caused or, for the amount they owe our client.

We expect that our clients, when they come to us, know they’re going to get a solution to their problems. We like to say we achieve justice one case at a time. We don’t show preferences. Every client get’s our very best effort.

ATTORNEY: At the law firm of Veron, Bice, Palermo and Wilson, our ability to product meaningful results for the clients we serve come from our focus and experience as trial lawyers. Our experience is extensive, with all our partners having practiced law in Lake Charles and the surrounding parts of Louisiana for more than 15 years. Our years of experience before judges and juries have given us a foundation of courtroom excellence that puts us at the forefront of the legal community.

The results we have achieved for our clients over the years have resulted in our attorneys being listed in the best lawyers in America, selected for inclusion in Louisiana Super Lawyers, and more.

We frequently use technology to strengthen our cases. This technology includes forensic photography, computer analytic modeling, and even video recreations of accidents in personal injury cases. We know how to use the technology to get our message across in the courtroom, to help jurors understand the evidence. Technology allows us to educate without lecturing, it enables us to make details come alive for the people who will determine the outcome of the case – the jurors.

ATTORNEY: Although truck drivers are normally some of the safest drivers on the road, when their companies force them to work long hours to meet a deadline or a quota or give them unsafe equipment to drive, that’s usually when crashes occur.

CLIENT: Another 18-wheeler is hauling some stuff and he was going over the speed limit. And his tire blew out and caused him to hit me, and we locked up, we went across the median, across the westbound lanes and winded up in a bunch of trees. Come to find out at the end he was overloaded and he had retread tires on his 18-wheeler. I’ve been working since I was 16 and I didn’t know what my livelihood and everything was going to be like after that. When I met them– Jay and Mike– they were total strangers. As the case went on, they were really good friends to me. And I thank them for everything they did.

ATTORNEY: If you or a loved one had been involved in a crash with an 18-wheeler, the law firm of Veron, Bice, Palermo, and Wilson can help you put your life back together and get you the compensation that you deserve.